The Brazilian sugarcane harvest 2020/21 is just slightly below the historical record.

With the 2020/21 sugar cane harvest approaching its end in March, the National Supply Company (Conab) estimates that it will be 3.5% higher than the previous one, reaching 665.1 million tonnes, just 0.1% below the all-time record of 665.6 million tonnes, reached in the 2015/16 harvest. Of the total sugarcane harvested, 53.8% should be used to produce 29.8 billion liters of biofuel, with the remainder volume used for sugar, with estimated 41.8 million tonnes.

Conab data also shows a significant increase in sugar exports with 23.7 million tonnes shipped between April and November, a volume 79.2% higher than in the same period of the previous harvest. The expectation is that it will surpass the 2016/17 all-time record, when Brazil exported 28.3 million tonnes.